Efficiency

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Dear Cutty, Of course you are correct, there is a happy medium.
My station Square lights up with only two or three others and sometimes there are not enough stations to register a stroke, maybe it is not the right sort of lightning. Who Knows?
Certainly for very near storms or heavy interference it is best for any station to stop sending to the server, that is the benefit of the network, most of those strokes are still going to be recorded by other stations, a thousand to one ratio seems reasonable under certain conditions, 100,000:1 is maybe less acceptable?
Comparing apples and oranges is not easy and most of us are trying to do our best.
I think what Egon is trying to find is a reasonable middle way and if that means excluding stations outside of certain limitations, so be it.
What you and the older stations have learnt has lead to the better development of the stations, over the years, greens to reds to blues to xyzs.
There will always be improvements and compromises possible, but we can't just sit on our laurels (or whatever!) and say that's it we are finished.
There is some way to go yet?

Brian.